Stepping Stones To My Dream and My Passion!!!

Well, I talked to our church youth pastor two Wednesdays ago and told him that I really have a burden to help out with the youth. I offered to help wherever there was a need. He said that there was a huge need for a middle school girl’s small group leader! Anyway our church is very large. About 800 to 1000 people so there is a very good-sized youth group. There's a process I have to go through, first, to be leading but our youth pastor is very excited and wants to get this process over with so I can start.

The next Saturday night I drove an hour away to go to one of our church youth leader's get together. I got to meet the soon-to- be NEW youth pastor. I asked him some pretty point blank questions and was absolutely floored at how non compromising he is in his beliefs. The things he had to say, in answer to my questions, are exactly what our youth need to hear. Things that have been neglected for (in my opinion) far to long!!! I'm so excited that God is bringing someone else that is standing up for Christ's ways and willing to address some rather uncomfortable issues! Since I will be leading a middle school small group soon it will be so nice to have him backing up some of these things that have been avoided or overlooked. Things that have been such a burden on my heart for so long!!! This new guy says we need to make, leading this youth, a team effort. I have high hopes that, as a team, with God's help we can and will make a big difference!!!! :)

I went to my 'interview" last Tuesday and it went very well! Things will be up and moving very soon. (This is so much better then camp where I only have 1 week to work with the girls and then they leave and I never know if I will ever even see them again... Then a new group comes in.) With this, I will have so much more time with these kids!

Since then I've gotten to hang out and get to know some of the kids. I'm really, very, super, excited!!!!! I know this is not going to be easy because I know everything I say/don't say and do/don't do counts! Pray for me I need His guidance to handle this job well and to make a difference!!!

I Wana Pull My Hair Out! Or... Life's Like Candy Land

Ok so I did this really awesome post with a super cool pix of an old candy land game board and wrote on how we used to play candy land. Then I told of how we each had to be a character from the game that we would pretend to be. Pris liked Princess Lolly the best so that's who she was. I was Queen Frostine. Kezzi, The evil Lord Licorice & Hope Gloppy the Molasses Monster. There were many funny details about how the game just exaggerated our personalities. How I loved being the queen and how perfect she was and how BIG her dress was. Pris liked to be in charge of the game and directed everything. Kezzi was always interested in being the villain no mater what we played and I wondered how much acting it actually required for her and how much was just natural. Hope was so obsessed with sweets (especially chocolate) back then that we didn't even ask her opinion about who she would be. The molasses swamp Monster was just to perfect for her 'cause he looked like he was buried in melted chocolate fudge and happy about it! So yeah, that post was funny and a lot more time and thought put into helping the reader feel as though they were there... But... for some reason after I pushed publish, it got lost and malfunctioned. I got mad that all that time was wasted and the post was lost forever!!! So here I am writing this pathetic, filthy condensed version of it and I wana pull my hair out. I'm to discouraged to try to write another post that's just as good. So anyone who's had similar experiences can have sympathy and some of you might have tears in your eyes by now after reading this. Thanks for reading my sob story. Hopefully next post will be better and more cheerful.

What can I say but life is like Candy Land. You're movin' along one step at a time enjoin' the sweetness of life then unexpectedly you draw a card that sends you back a few spaces... annddd sometimes you get stuck for a long time in the Molasses swamp!